RELIGION AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE 2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2012-2013 Full Name Jared Ching B Section LC#

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Part One: YOUR Epistemological World Views Summarize here your ndings (even if tentative!) about your philosophies of knowledge: Absolutist, Relativist, or Rationalist? Domains Natural Science Social Science Item #s 1, 5, 14 4, 8, 12 YOUR Philo of K Absolutist Relativist Brief Reason + Remarks
Even though we dont know everything yet, there must be one reason for everything. Patterns emerge in this form of Science but there are outliers out there making it onlya little less untrue

Art Morality Religion

3, 7, 10 6, 9, 11 2, 13, 15

Rationalist Relativist Rationalist

Opinions are equally valid One may be truer because morals affect people.

Part Two: Ways of Knowing How important are the different Ways of Knowing in the different domains? Rank them from 1 to 5 according to importance, with 1 as MOST IMPORTANT. If you think there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Sense Perception 2 2 1 3 2 Reason 1 1 4 2 3 Language 3 4 2 4 4 Emotion 4 3 3 1 1 Others?

I try to understand where others religion.

Part Three: AUTHORITY and/or EVIDENCE/ARGUMENT When you justify claims, how much do you actually rely on External Authority and Direct Evidence for every domain? Assign a percentage to each one per domain (Just make an estimate, so NO decimal points--e.g., 25.2321%!). Make sure both total 100%. Domains % AUTHORITY 50% 40% 50% 60% 70% % EVIDENCE /ARGUMENT 50% 60% 50% 40% 30% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Brief Reason + Remarks

Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion

We rely on both to see and put things into theories The evidence is studied more and patterns are more observed. There should be a share of both so people will know what to look for. People know what they feel is moral and how they want to be treated. The religious authority can impose what believers should know so that they have a guide.

Why do you think there is no OPINION in Part Three?

Because if we relied on opinion alone, the ideas will be scattered and we will not arrive at knowledge which can be accepted my the majority.

Some other learnings, comments, connections... I am still confused as to how we should look at these different Areas of knowledge in terms of philosophies of knowledge.